(Washington D.C.) U.S. House Representative Cindy Axne from Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, appearing on her bi-monthly interview with KSOM/KS95 news, talked about the Rural Prosperity act, which she helped introduce with a bipartisan, bi-cameral group.
Congresswoman Axne says the problem is there are more than 400 federal programs dedicated to helping rural communities, spread across 13 departments and over 50 offices and sub-agencies which can create siloed, duplicative, and ineffective bureaucracy.
The bill would streamline federal services for rural America and cut bureaucratic red tape by establishing the Office of Rural Prosperity. This Office would be permanent in the White House tasked with coordinating national efforts to support and connect America’s rural communities to federal programs and resources.
